After a few days of rest, tuning, and waiting for my friend to come over to help take photos (only after taking the photos did we realize the problem—the CPU water block was installed incorrectly! Images at the end), post this to share some pictures.
Configuration is as follows:
CPU: Intel 12900KF
Motherboard: EVGA Z690 Dark KINGPIN
Memory: G.Skill Trident Z Royal Silver 6400MHz CL32 64GB (32GBx2)
GPU: 3090 KINGPIN Hybrid Gaming
Storage: 2TB M.2 SSD, 1.5TB SATA SSD, 1TB HDD
Power Supply: EVGA 1600 T2
Case: INWIN D-frame 1.0
Fans: 8x INWIN LN120
Cooling system configuration is as follows:
Radiators: 1x Blackice GTS 360, 1x Bitspower Leviathan 360, 1x Bitspower TouchAqua Leviathan 240
CPU Water Block: HEATKILLER IV PRO
GPU Water Block: EVGA HydroCopper kit for 3090 KINGPIN
Reservoir and Pump: EK-Quantum Kinetic TBE 200-Plexi and a Lowara D5 Manual 37W Pump
Fittings: All from Bitspower TouchAqua
Tubing: Barrow 14mm acrylic tubes
Coolant: Mayhems XT-1 clear concentrate and distilled water
GPU on Normal BIOS without any overclock, for CPU I use the motherboard BIOS OC Robot (E cores 5.3GHz P cores 4.1 GHz)
Memory I only enabled X.M.P, fans were set to a fixed 70% speed (controlled by motherboard)
A big reason I didn’t overclock is because I know nothing about overclocking. It sounds funny because a big part of what makes the KINGPIN and EVGA products attractive is their overclocking capability, but that’s the truth. If any of you can teach me, that would be great.
Temperature performance:
At a room temperature of 25°C, GPU full load temperature is around 60°C, hot spot temperature around 70°C. CPU during R23 test reached 91°C, with the hottest core reaching 95°C. I’m not sensitive to temperature, so these temperatures are acceptable to me.
Final note: I’ve had this setup for a few years. A few months ago, I decided to watch videos and try it myself; before that, I had no experience building custom water-cooling loops, and it was still a lot of fun. So if there’s anything unreasonable in the setup, I’d appreciate guidance from experienced enthusiasts.